This is an analysis of Has She Forgotten? by James Whitcomb Riley.
I.
Has she forgotten? On this very May…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a abbaaaXXcacXcA X deeXddeefgfafA X bddbbbXcagcaaa
- Stanza lengths: 1,14,1,14,1,14,
- Metre: 1 1101010101 1001100111 1111010101 1101011101 01011100111 1101110101 0111011100 1101111100 1101010111 0101011001 1101010101 110100111000 1101011101 1101010101 1 1110010011 1111000111 1111011101 1101110100 0011101101 1101010101 1111010101 1111010001 0111110101 1001111100 1101011111 0100011100 1101011001 1101010101 1 0101110011 1101110101 0100010101 1111000100 0101010100 0101110111 01001010100 1001010111 1100010101 0011111100 0111010001 0111011111 1101110100 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 45
Repeated words/phrases
and, forgotten, long, of
Anaphora
has, that, of
